Using Qualitative Evidence to Optimize Child PTSD Treatment Guidelines

Abstract

The importance of patients’ perspectives in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is increasingly emphasized in recent years. However, qualitative evidence regarding these perspectives, is not systematically included in treatment guidelines. The possibilities of adding systematically aggregated recipients’ views are examined in this paper, with a focus on children and adolescents. We reanalyzed a qualitative synthesis of the experiences of traumatized youth in order to derive recommendations for treatment. These recommendations were juxtaposed to 3 leading international sets of guidelines for children’s treatment that stem from a quantitatively dominated evidence base. We fou..